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Dynamic file content generation: Satisfying a 'file open' by a 'process execution'

I have a read-only file, F. A program, P, that I'm not the author of, needs to read F. I want the content of F to come from another 'generator' program, G, whenever P tries to read F (taking F to ...
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how to keep file owner same for newly created files

This question is regarding samba file access. I have created a folder A, and under folder A created two folders B and C. And also created three users A, B and C. User A has access to all three ...
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Delete whitespace in filenames in directory

I have a directory where some filenames have been wrongly named something .pdf rather than something.pdf. Is there a quick one liner I can use to delete the whitespace in the filenames. I have tried ...
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Is there a robust way to cache contents of usb on local hd?

I'd like to switch between working on a laptop with a debian vm and a desktop pc running debian while carrying all my work files in a usb. Is there a robust way to automatically start caching the ...
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Cleaner way to delete files on Linux which include a datestamp as part of file name

I have a new requirement to purge MySQL dump files that are older than 30 days. The files use a naming convention of "all-mysql-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.dump". The files are located on SAN mounted file system, ...
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Cannot access any files Manjaro Linux

I cannot open any files on my Manjaro Linux laptop. I really can't remember why it happened but I restarted my computer and now I dont have read/write access to any folder or file even though I've ...
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How do I make a file NOT modifiable?

While logged in, I can do the following: mkdir foo touch foo/bar chmod 400 foo/bar chmod 500 foo Then I can open vim (not as root), edit bar, force a write with w!, and the file is modified! How ...
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What is sources.list?

I know sources.list is a file that contains a list of HTTP links pointing to some software downloads. I would like to know more detailed explanations and various conventions followed in the ...
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How hardlink and softlink works in background?

I am looking for an explanation of the following: what happens in Linux when we create soft link and hardlink how are they accessible why do symlinks always display 777 permissions
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Having trouble executing a compiled C program

I am running an Ubuntu v10.04 through VirtualBox. To test the persistence of files I create in the virtual machine, I wrote a very basic C program. When I shutdown the virtual machine and restart it, ...
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dynamic file system with hooks

Is there anyway in linux (I don't care which distribution or flavor) to have a dynamic file system with read/write hooks? For example I would like to mount a dynamic file system at /dynamic and ...
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Single command to check if file exists, and print (custom) message to stdout?

Hope it's OK to note this, now that I've encountered it: I'm already aware that one can test for file existence using the test ([) command: $ touch exists.file $ if [ -f exists.file ] ; then echo ...
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How can I be sure that a directory or file is actually deleted?

I know that most files, when deleted, aren't actually removed from the disk, and can be recovered later. How can I ensure that a directory I had deleted will actually be removed from the disk? Are ...
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why cannot rename subdir when parent dir owner is not the same user [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can’t rename a directory that I own I am trying to understand why when a dir X is owned by user A cannot rename it when parent dir of X is owned by user B. Can anyone ...
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Is it possible to know who visited my home directory?

Suppose there are many users in a Linux cluster, each of them has his own HOME directory under /home/xxx, with xxx being his user name (or account). If the initial system configuration allows these ...
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Filesize difference of same name folders

Two different folders, have the same name but they have different filesize. Is there any linux command that can compare two folders and tell me the diff in filesize at the same time?
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How to create a virtual file that is coupled to a program, e.g. to a `.gz` file via `gzip`?

Given e.g. a gzipped textfile file.txt.gz, how to create a special file file.txt that on reading yields the (interactively) decompressed contents of the .gz file, and on writing a) re-gzips the new ...
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How to know recently updated files

If I run iostat -x 1 I saw ocassionally large 5MB to 10MB writes. What files are being written? I want to check the recently created files with size over 5MB for example. How would I do so?
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file command + how to view all results from file command

I use the file command in order to verify if file (PATH) is text/ascii file or encrypted file Because file command have allot of results ( small example in example 1 ) I want to get the all ...
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Print non-existent files from a pipe input

I have a directory of lots of .PDF and .JPG files. There should be a .JPG file for each .PDF with the same name. I'm trying to use a command to find .PDF files that doesn't have a .JPG file. My ...
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How to place / store a file in memory on linux?

I have read somewhere that one can put a file on a linux system into memory, and loading it will be superfast. How do I do this? How do I verify the file is loaded from memory?
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linux/solaris + manipulation of Standard Output

I run the following line on linux/solaris machine ( all output will write in to /tmp/Log from application.bin ) ./application.bin 1>>/tmp/Log We can see the content of the /tmp/Log file ...
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Cannot execute binary file on Linux server [closed]

I'm currently trying to run Knime (a Java-based program) on a Linux server, and every time I try to execute the file (knime) it gives me a "cannot execute binary file" error. I've posted the relevant ...
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Sphinx Search shutting down after `FATAL: accept() failed: Too many open files`

I'm running Sphinx Search Server V2.06 ( the latest stable release ) on an Amazon EC2 with Linux CentOS. In general it is running fine, but the searchd.log is showing this error over and over with ...
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Linux Icon Naming Conventions

Is there a naming convention in Linux when it comes to application icon filenames? What I'm referring to is the practice of including the icon size in the filename if the application uses multiple ...
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What does - mean with association to Linux files and directories [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What does “--” (double-dash) mean? What does '--' (two dashes) mean with association to Linux files and directories. I've found something else but not too sure if it is ...
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Are limits.conf values applied on a per-process basis?

I'm tuning the nofile value in /etc/security/limits.conf for my oracle user and I have a question about its behavior: does nofile limit the total number of files the user can have open for all of its ...
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How to list all files in the size order

I would like to list all files in the order of big to small in size and the files could be present anywhere in a certain folder.
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Cent OS 6.3 Hidden files in shell

I need help, I want to be able to check whether a file is hidden or not in Cent OS 6.3. These are often referred to as (dot) files but I can clearly see Cent OS 6.3 handling these by appending a ...
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Gedit won't save a file on a VirtualBox share: Text file busy

I have a text file that I can change using other applications (for example openoffice). But when I try to change and save it using gedit, I am getting error from gedit: Could not save the file ...
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File delete versus overwrite and link at /proc/pid/fd

It is well known that UNIX systems won't actually delete a file on disk while the file is in use. So if a file is being accessed by process 1 and process 2 deletes the file using rm, process 1 ...
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linux disk caching affects access times reported by stat?

On Ubuntu 12.04 I did the following stat a file cat the same file stat the file again cat the file again after 5 min stat the file The access time reported at 3. reflects the point at which 2. was ...
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Why do I get 3048 MB from a 64 MB flash memory?

I have a Linux based STB (set-top-box) and it features a 64 MB flash memory and 256 MB of RAM. I wanted to take a backup of some of my settings before I flash it with another image, but I wasn't sure ...
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Does the suid bit have any meaning for device files?

Does the suid bit have any special meaning for device files in Linux ?
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Group within group file permissions

I tried finding this on here, but couldn't so sorry if it's a duplicate. Say I have 2 groups and a user: group1, group2, user1 with the following structure: group1 is a member of group 2, user1 is a ...
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Regarding generating intersection and union of two csv files

I have two csv files, there are some overlap columns between these two files. Assume one file is called as A.csv and another is called as B.csv. The intersection of A and B is called as C. I would ...
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How to compare attributes of two files on Linux ext4

cmp(1) will of course tell me if the contents of two files are identical, but in order to test restoring from backups I also wanted to compare the relevant (!) file attributes. So if I did something ...
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Transform directory structure

I have the following folder structure root folder |-al2 |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip |-ww |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip and so on. The folder names are random strings. I want to sort the files in ...
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How does the Linux file structure work?

I see the different folders bin, dev, mnt, proc, srv, sys, etc. What are the properties of all these different folders? What are there purposes? Are there files in some of them that I should not ...
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How to generate folder ownership lists for each user?

I'd like to generate several separate lists for each user in Ubuntu. The lists contains the files and folders belong to each user. Using the command following list me all the users in the system: ...
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Find a file in lots of zip files (like find command for directories) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Find recursively all archive files of diverse archive formats and search them for file name patterns I need to search for a file in all zip files in a directory. Is ...
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Technology / program selection for picture viewing software

I want to learn some Binux usage and/or programming skills and provide an easy to use browser based picture gallery on my local home network. My idea is to have a server machine, that is the Linux ...
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What Windows-related files are valueless to *nix users?

I have accumulated, from my time using Windows a good quantity of held-over filesystem copies and archives of system and data drives. I am trying to distill them down to the usable parts while ...
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single bind mounted file gets out of sync in linux

I am bind mounting a single file on top of another one and after making changes with an editor, I don't see the modifications in both files. However, if I make the changes with the shell using ...
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File is mysteriously empty. Options to recover?

I have seen several posts about recovering deleted files, but this situation is different. My wife had a file called Journal.odt in which she kept a lot of important personal information such as ...
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Group ID 501 cannot be found

A file in a directory has a Group ID "501" After checking /etc/group, Group ID "501" was not found how is that possible ?
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How to list sample of files from a directory

I have a directory that contains hundred thousands of files. I need to list sample of these files (example 10 files), without processing all the files found in the directory which will take too much ...
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How to skip “permission denied” errors when running find in Linux? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I remove “permission denied” printout statements from the find program? When I run this command in Linux (SuSE): find / -name ant I get many error ...
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Does inotify fire a notification when a write is started or when it is completed?

Imagine two processes, a reader and a writer, communicating via a regular file on an ext3 fs. Reader has an inotify IN_MODIFY watch on the file. Writer writes 1000 bytes to the file, in a single ...
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How to delete a file with multiple colon signs in its name?

I have a folder with so many files whose name has multiple colon signs. For example: Mail::Message::Field::Full.3pm.gz. I wonder how to delete them. I have tried rm ...

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